How do people like Cloudflare get away with issuing SSL's to anyone who requests it for their website (via redirection) and for free. There does not appear to be any fitness examination of a website that applies for such.

Saw the same guy at Hurleston in September, he stayed on the bench there for a couple of nights. He appears to be a friendly happy soul and I would consider that his radio is one of the main comforts of his travels.

In my early days of drilling and cutting we used a home brew concoction nicknamed Mystic, basically a mix of oil an water in the right proportions,also tallow for thread cutting.
A vote from me also for Starret, to my mind simply the best. I still have a selection of rather old Starret hole saws, even though they have been extensively used as good as the day they were purchased.

Cannot agree with you on that.
The fact it is already under the Winter stoppage listing indicates that the canal is closed. It is just an addendum that now the towpath is closed. Winter stoppages are never issued just for towpath closures. Trying to nitpick makes you look stupid.

Must admit I was also disappointed with it. I thought I had nodded off and missed a bit, they could have easily made two episodes of the trip and shown a little more of the Bridgewater, along with perhaps some of the Shroppie to Chester and beyond. I'm sure it would have been interesting to boaters and non boaters.

I am not sure that Peter Hain was doing a public service in outing Philip Green.
It now turns out that Hain is a paid adviser to Gordon Dadds, the law firm who are representing The Telegraph in their fight to overturn Philip Green’s injunctions. This is going to spectacularly backfire on Hain.